Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum
Narrated by Jerry Stearns with commentary by Karen Larson, Jerry Powlas, John Vigor, and Ted Brewer Dedication To the one who said: “The Spray will come back.”
The “Spray.” From a photograph taken in Australian waters.
All illustrations included in Sailing Alone Around the World, first published by The Century Company of New York in 1905. Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty and George Varian. Chapter One Illustrations
Drawn by W. Taber. The Northern Light, Captain Joshua Slocum, Cross-section of the Spray. bound for Liverpool, 1885.
“ ‘It’ll crawl!’ ” Chapter Two Illustrations
“ ‘No dorg nor no cat.’ ”
Captain Slocum’s chronometer. The deacon’s dream. Chapter Three Illustrations
“ ‘Good evening, sir.’ ”
“He also sent his card.”
Chart of the Spray’s course around the world —April 24, 1895, to July 3, 1898. Chapter Three Illustrations (continued)
The island of Pico.
Chart of the Spray’s Atlantic voyages from Boston to Gibraltar, thence to the Strait of Magellan, in 1895, and finally homeward bound from the Cape of Good Hope in 1898. Chapter Four Illustrations
The apparition at the wheel.
Coming to anchor at Gibraltar.
The Spray at anchor off Gibraltar. Chapter Five Illustrations
Chased by pirates.
Chapter Six Illustrations
“I suddenly remembered that I could not swim.”
A double surprise. At the sign of the comet.
Chapter Seven Illustrations
A great wave off the Patagonian coast.
Entrance to the Strait of Magellan. Chapter Seven Illustrations (continued)
The course of the Spray through the Strait of Magellan.
The man who wouldn’t ship without another “mon and a doog.” A Fuegian Girl. Looking west from Fortescue Bay, where the Spray was chased by Indians. (From a photograph.)
A brush with Fuegians.
A bit of friendly assistance. (After a sketch by Midshipman Miguel Arenas.) Chapter Eight Illustrations
Cape Pillar.
“They howled like a pack of hounds.”
A glimpse of Sandy Point (Punta Arenas) in the Strait of Magellan. Chapter Nine Illustrations
“ ‘Yammerschooner!’ ”
A contrast in lighting — the electric lights of the Colombia and the canoe fires of the Fortescue Indians.
Records of passages through the strait at the head of Borgia Bay. Note: On a small bush nearer the water there was a board bearing several other inscriptions, to which were added the words “Sloop Spray, March, 1896.” Chapter Nine Illustrations (continued)
Salving wreckage.
Chapter Ten Illustrations
“The first shot uncovered three Fuegians.” The Spray approaching Juan Fernandez, Robinson Crusoe’s Island. Chapter Eleven Illustrations
The house of the king.
Robinson Crusoe’s cave.
The man who called a cabra a goat. Chapter Twelve Illustrations
Meeting with the whale.
First exchange of courtesies in Samoa.
Vailima, the home of Robert Louis Stevenson. The Spray’s course from the Strait of Magellan to Torres Strait.
The Spray’s course from Australia to South Africa. Chapter Thirteen Illustrations
Captain Slocum working the Spray out of the The accident at Sydney. Yarrow River, a part of Melbourne harbor.
The shark on the deck of the Spray. On board at St. Kilda. Retracing on the chart the course of the Spray from Boston.
Chapter Fourteen Illustrations
The Spray in her port duster at Devonport, Tasmania, February 22, 1897.
“ ‘Is it a-goin’ to blow!’ ” Chapter Fifteen Illustrations
The Spray leaving Sydney, Australia, in the new suit of sails given by Commodore Foy of Australia. (From a photograph.) Chapter Sixteen Illustrations
The Spray ashore for “boot-topping” at the Keeling Islands. (From a photograph.)
Captain Slocum drifting out to sea. Chapter Seventeen Illustrations
Captain Joshua Slocum.
The Spray at Mauritius.
Chapter Eighteen Illustrations
Cartoon printed in the Cape Town “Owl” of March 5, 1898, in connection with an item about Captain Slocum’s trip to Pretoria. Captain Slocum, Sir Alfred Milner (with the tall hat), and Colonel Saunderson, M. P., on the bow of the Spray at Cape Town.
“Reading day and night.” Chapter Nineteen Illustrations There are no illustrations in Chapter 19.
Chapter Twenty Illustrations
The Spray passed by the Oregon. Chapter Twenty-One Illustrations
The Spray in the storm off New York. Again tied to the old stake at Fairhaven. Appendix Illustrations
Plan of the after cabin of the Spray.
Deck-plan of the Spray. Appendix Illustrations (continued)
Sail-plan of the Spray. The solid lines represent the sail-plan of the Spray on the starting for the long voyage. With it she crossed the Atlantic to Gi- braltar, and then crossed again southwest to Brazil. In South American waters the bowsprit and boom were shortened and the jigger-sail added to form the yawl-rig with which the rest of the trip was made, the sail-plan of which is indicated by the dotted lines. The extreme sail forward is a flying jib occasionally used, set to a bamboo stick fastened to the bowsprit. The manner of setting and bracing the jigger-mast is not indicated in this drawing, but may be partly observed in the plans on the next page.
Steering-gear of the Spray. The dotted lines are the ropes used to lash the wheel. In practice the loose ends were belayed, one over the other, around the top spokes of the wheel. Body-plan of the Spray.
Lines of the Spray.